What you Learned – 21st Century Learning Connection?
How will you use it or apply it?
Barb Voget
5th grade-MVES
pbworks.com
* year long project
wikis for lit. circles
mirror neurons
more/less chart
projects for 5th graders that show their expertise
set up wikis for books
more modeling
more/less chart for staff showing what should be in classrooms
Becki Pedersen
2nd grade-MVES
change of teacher's mindset
I learned more about Active Learning Strategies; what they are, and what they aren't. We need to do more projects, movements, role playing, writing, technology, collaboration, and challenging problems and less worksheets, demonstrations, lectures, memorization, videos, and reteaching.
Have more role-playing, use photostory more often, using digital cameras more
-teaching kids to think critically/informational literacy
-using tech. tools effectively vs. just having them take up space
-accessing expertise
-providing more opportunities for invention
using tasks on allabout explorers.com as a springboard to teach students how to evaluate information on the internet
Voki
AVID Wiki
-using tech. tools effectively vs. just having them take up space
-accessing expertise
-providing more opportunities for invention
use digital storytelling/claymation